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alloy

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to commingle to debase by mixing with something inferior

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august

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majestic, venerable

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broach

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to bring up; to announce; to being to talk about

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brook

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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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cardinal

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major (as in cardinal sin)

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consequential

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to change as if by dyeing; to distort, gloss, or affect

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damp

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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essay

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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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exact

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to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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fell

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inhumanly cruel

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flag

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to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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clip

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sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant

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ford

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse

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to complain or grumble

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guy

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy

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intimate

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to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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list

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to tit or lean to one side

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lumber

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to move heavily and clumsily

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meet

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fitting, proper

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milk

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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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mince

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully; to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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nice

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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occult

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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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pied
multicolored, usually in blotches
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plastic
moldable, pliable, not rigid
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pluck
courage, spunk, fortitude
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prize
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
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rail
to complain about bitterly
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rent
torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
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quail
to lose courage; to turn frightened
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qualify
to limit
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sap
to enervate or weaken the vitality of; a fool or nitwit
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scurvy
contemptible, despicable
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singular
exceptional, unusual, odd
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stand
a group of trees
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strut
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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table
to remove from consideration
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tender
to proffer or offer
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waffle
to equivocate; to change one's opinion
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wag
wit, joker
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abjure
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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adumbrat
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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anathema
a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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anodyne
soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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apogee
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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apostate
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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apotheosis
deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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asseverate
to aver, allege, or assert
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assiduous
diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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augury
omen, portent
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calumniate
to slander, to make a false accusation
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captious
disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument
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cavil
to find fault without good reason
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celerity
speed, alacrity
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chimera
an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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contumacious
insubordinate, rebellious
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debacle
rout, fiasco, complete failure
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denouement
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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descry
to discriminate or discern
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desuetude
disuse
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desultory
random, aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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diaphanous
transparent, gauzy
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diffident
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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dirge
a song of grief or lamentation
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eschew
to shun or avoid
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excoriate
to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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execrate
to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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exegesis
critical examination, explication
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expiate
to atone or make amends for
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extirpate
to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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fatuous
silly, inanely foolish
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heterodox
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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indefatigable
not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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ineluctable
certain, inevitable
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inimitable
one of a kind, peerless
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insouciant
unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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inveterate
deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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jejune
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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lubricious
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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mendicant
a better, supplicant
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meretricious
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy showy; attracting by false show
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minatory
menacing, threatening
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nadir
low point, perigee
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nonplussed
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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obstreperous
noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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palliate
to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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parsimonious
cheap, miserly
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peroration
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent
pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix
long-winded, verbose
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pureile
childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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puissance
power, strength
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remonstrate
to protest, to object
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salacious
lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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salutary
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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sentenious
aphoristic or moralistic epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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stygian
gloomy, dark
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sycophant
toady, servile, self-seeking flatter; parasite
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tendentious
biased; showing marked tendencies
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voluable
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken langauge

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